<p>The water is like 60 degrees over there.</p>
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<p>Yea, there's a cornfield behind one of my friend's house, which is in suburban Columbus.</p>
<p>There's a few graves next to someone's house...in the area where I live. </p>
<p>I live near the beach, but ever since I went to Jamaica I refuse go back in VA water.</p>
<p>You know, before you folks glamorize the city life just think about what us city slickers go through on a daily basis.</p>
<p>More stressful life. Have you ever experienced rush hour on the subway/metro or the busy streets? Insane. The work here sometimes just comes in piles sometimes and in bad times</p>
<p>More pollution. Some cities have it worst then others, some cities have it so bad they actually pass on their pollution to other cities (a large portion of Toronto's pollution actually comes from the Ohio Valley for instance). Respritory illnesses are more common among city folks then non-city folks.</p>
<p>High cost of living. Montreal is probably the only North American metropolis where the cost of living isn't spiraling out of control. Take a look at Craigslist every once and a while and look how much 1 bedroom apartments go far. </p>
<p>The suburbs surrounding the city and the people who continually vote down important issues related to the city even though they don't live there. <---- Most annoying thing ever.</p>
<p>Various class issues. Poverty, homelessness (and people from the suburbs who assume it's due to laziness and stupidity). Just a note though, a lot but not all of the homeless and impoverished come from small towns looking to make it big in the city but end of failing. There's more than enough stories of broken dreams in cities to fill an encyclopedia.</p>
<p>The smells. Every city has a distinct smell for sure. It's disgusting 9 times out of 10. Live in a city long enough and your sense of smell will be so dulled by the pollution that you won't notice horrible smells anymore.</p>
<p>Depending on the city you live in, the crime can be a huge problem or not one at all.</p>
<p>Grass isn't necessarily greener on the other side folks. Although personally, from my standpoint I love living in a large city.</p>
<p>Icrisis - as amazing as it sounds rural life can have many of those same problems.
I personally prefer a more stressful life. Almost everyone at my mom's work is so imcompetant that none of the projects get done on time, and many of her managers are under investigation for fraud.<br>
Have you ever experienced a traffic jam on icy roads after a full day of skiing? It can take an hour to go 9 miles to the next town on an average weekend.
We also have pollution. I live in the mountains along the usual route of the jet stream. We get incredible haze from fires in China and Russia. The sand from the Asian deserts also finds it's way over here and melts the snow.
We also have a high cost of living. Since we are surrounded by protected forests, there is only so much room to expand.
Class issues exist everywhere. There are homes in my town that are worth over 2 million dollars that are a couple blocks away from a trailor park. We have an issue with homelessness as well because it's very cold here, we don't have shelters, and most soup kitchens are only on Saturdays or Sundays through the churches.
Crimes happen everywhere. Everything from murder to bank robbery happen in rural areas as well.
Now I admit that it's not as high as in cities, but it still happens. We also don't have smells. Small, rural towns often have similar problems as big cities do, just on a smaller scale.
All that being said, I do love the city life because I need a high stress environment and many different things to do.</p>
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<p>Try 23. lol</p>
<p>I would take city life over Monterey anyday. If I get the opportunity to live in New York, I'd take it in a flash :)</p>
<p>After spending 2.5 months in Seoul with everything to do and money (working at Samsung) and coming back to San Jose and Cupertino bites and sucks nothing to do and no stores are open after 11...</p>
<p>Ouch. That sucks.</p>
<p>I went to Hong Kong a few years ago and when I came back to the States, I felt like I was stuck in a room with no way out. It didn't help that the roads were so icy we couldn't drive for a few days too..</p>
<p>i got my wallet pick pocketed in the subway in korea along with my CA drivers license and like 20 dollars in cash and DMV said it will take like 3-4 weeks to mail me a new one and by that time I will be off to the UK so **** ITS GETTING BORING!</p>
<p>You know, I was actually talking to an architect from New York City once, he was in his mid 40's. In average shape but pretty well set up. He had a nice loft (I forget where, but it was a nice neighbourhood) and was born and raised in New York. We had talked for a while about why he was in my city, Toronto, and he said he was hired to design a new condo here which I happened to be the security guard of. Anyways, long story short we ended up talking about his life in New York. At one point he just stopped and said, "You know, after a while, I don't even remember the first 40 years of my life. It's like I missed it. There were times while I was working where I would walk 20 city blocks and not notice anything because there were so many people around. What happened?"</p>
<p>Think about that.</p>
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<p>Really? That's really interesting.</p>
<p>Ya, it's amazing that it finds it's way over here, but like I said the jet stream's normal route is right above us. Last year the haze was so bad one day that it looked like the smog of a city. Everyone in the streets was coughing and stuff. It's crazy to think that problems in my state are caused by people and events half way around the world.</p>
<p>Whoa... I"m impressed.</p>
<p>I sometimes feel like there is nothing to do where I live, too... that's because I'm usually broke half the time and you can't do anything in Japan unless you've got at least 5000 yen on you (about $50). Japan definately lives up to the fact its one of the most expensive countries to live in (the fact that I'm about two hours from Tokyo doesn't help, too). But when I do get out, oh man. Everything is so amazing. The Japanese nightlife is... wow. Definately something everybody should experience once before they die, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Wow! King-- I went to Seoul a couple of months back, and they warned us about the pick pocketing before we roamed around the shopping district nearby (I forgot what it's called ><). Dang, I'm sorry!</p>